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The Vampire
An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori’s publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom’s detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when Enlightenment science collided with Eastern European folklore and apparently verified outbreaks of vampirism, capturing the attention of medical researchers, political commentators, social theorists, theologians, and philosophers. Groom accordingly traces the vampire from its role as a monster embodying humankind’s fears, to that of an unlikely hero for the marginalized and excluded in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literary and artistic representations, as well as medical, forensic, empirical, and sociopolitical perspectives, this rich and eerie history presents the vampire as a strikingly complex being that has been used to express the traumas and contradictions of the human condition.
The Secret History of Vampires
A look at the forgotten ancestors of the modern-day vampire, many of which have very different characteristics • Looks at the many ancestoral forms of the modern vampire, including shroud eaters, appesarts, and stafi • Presents evidence for the reality of this phenomenon from pre-19th-century newspaper articles and judicial records Of all forms taken by the undead, the vampire wields the most powerful pull on the modern imagination. But the countless movies and books inspired by this child of the night who has a predilection for human blood are based on incidents recorded as fact in newspapers and judicial archives in the centuries preceding the works of Bram Stoker and other writers. Di...
A Book of European Writers
A Book of European Writers A-Z By Country Published on June 12, 2014 in USA.
Evangelische Kirchengeschichtsdidaktik
Seit Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts ist die Kirchengeschichte ein Element im evangelischen Religionsunterricht. Durch eine historische Analyse von über 350 Schulbüchern und konzeptionellen didaktischen Entwürfen wird die Entwicklung der Kirchengeschichtsdidaktik von 1770 bis 2020 dargelegt und in drei Typen zusammengefasst. Sie wirft ein neues Licht auf die Geschichte des ev. Religionsunterrichts. Im zweiten Teil der Studie wird die Geltung der drei Typen systematisch überprüft und eine an Kompetenzen orientierte, praxistaugliche Didaktik (Ziele und Intentionen, Inhalte, Methoden) vorgelegt. [A Didactic on Church History ;historical analysis and didactic conception] Since the middle of the ...
